There are variety of content scrapers out there looking take the content you have worked so hard on and steal it. Blog content scraping is an act usually performed with scripts that extract content from numerous sources and pulls it into one site.

Here’s how to stop them:

Search Your Post Titles (with quotes)

Doing a manual search for your post titles is tedious, but it will allow you to find any piece of content that has been stolen.

Get a Premium Service

The automated version of the above solution is to pay for a service like CopyScape that does this for you with just a few clicks. In my opinion, this is definitely the way to go as the cost is not very much and it can save you hours of time, particularly if you make this task an ongoing thing.

Once you have found the scrapers…

The easiest thing to do is just to ignore the scrapers, but this can be detrimental to your site’s rankings. Instead, it’s recommended that you send a DMCA takedown request to the offending site’s hosting company. Most reputable hosting companies take these seriously and the content will removed in a matter of days.

Occasionally you are going to get some haters, not matter how good your blog content is. But you should embrace them because they help to foster discussion and get other people involved in your blog community.